IconBuffet mania
I really love IconBuffet. I think you all should join and trade with us!
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Blabby has invited you to join IconBuffet, a
fantastic community chock full of free icons and artwork
for your blog, myspace, desktop or website.
As an IconBuffet member you get new free icons every month,
and you can trade these icons with other members to grow
your collection. It’s kinda like baseball cards, only without
the steroids. And you can use your free icons on your website.
Pretty cool, eh?
Sign up for your free IconBuffet account now:
http://www.iconbuffet.com
We hope you enjoy the ‘Buffet!
My first Amigurumi…
In between furiously using my newly allotted tokens on iconbuffet, I’ve also been pretty busy crafting. Here are my newest creations. The little Ami bird is from a pattern from BitterSweet.
The purse is my own design. I wanted a small purse with a long strap that I could wear like a messenger bag. I ended up making the strap too long because once my big-ass wallet is in there, the strap stretches, and my little purse is below my booty. But I still think it came out great. It was very simple - all single crochet, with double crochet for the strap. Let me know if you want a pattern, and I’ll make one up.
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Blog facelift…
Well, as you might notice, I’ve dedicated a little photoshop time to my blog. I’m not 100% happy with it yet, but it’s getting better. I especially like how it appears as though I’ve spilled coffee all over the screen - very appropriate for my house :)
If anyone knows how to make my header image a link, let me know. The problem is that it’s a background image on my style sheet. If it was placed there as part of the HTML, I’d know how to make it a link, but since it’s a background style for the header container, my CSS skills don’t quite know how to deal with that.
I removed the php text that was there (blog title and description) because I wanted to use a cuter font, but it was that text that provided the link home. Any suggestions, web smarties?
Credits:
- Fonts are from Stampin’ Up!’s Write Me a Memory CD.
- My head is from iStockPhoto, and I added the glasses in Illustrator. Because I need them to see, of course.
- Book background is stolen off of some book site - can’t remember, but it’s one where you list all the books you’re reading. I stopped going to it because it’s enough work to list all those books here, and I’m waaay behind.
- Textured background (diagonal stripes) I made in Photoshop by creating a pattern, then applying the pattern with very little opacity. There are a lot of tutorials online to do this.
- Cute little turtle is from the best icon-trading site ever, IconBuffet.
- And of course, big props to Solostream Webstudio for the free Bosco 2.0 Wordpres theme. I hope they don’t mind my mods.
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Free Icons
My new favorite website…IconBuffet. I was googling “free icons” one day, and stubled onto Icon Buffet - the coolest icon swapping/social networking site. THIS IS NOT A SPONSORED POST. I just really love this site. The best part is that I’ve gotten the coolest icons for free. My current favorite is the sushinobi series. Here are a few of my FREE icons!
How cool are those?! Plus, when you download your set, you get a million versions, so you basically don’t have to edit them. They can be used as favicons, bullets, background tiles (which is usually tacky, so you shouldn’t do that)…whatever you can dream up.
So anyway, you have to ask people to be your friend, they can send you free deliveries of icons, and when you accept them, you get stamps. Then you use your stamps to send deliveries to other people. And so the kindness goes…
Check it out…I promise you’ll like it.
